I just wish I had my own tropical island. I wish I could go to China I wish I could go to outer space, man, I wish I had my own planet I wish there were 200 of me and man I wish, I wish I could just sit around with computers and machines and just brainstorm all day.

-Vernon, in George Washington (written by David Gordon Green, monologue by Damian Jewan Lee)

Even with years of buildup and knowing there was no way they could live up to the legend, Radiohead were so much better than even my highest expectation, that my whole outlook on the world had to be immediately revised.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

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I just wish I had my own tropical island. I wish I could go to China I wish I could go to outer space, man, I wish I had my own planet I wish there were 200 of me and man I wish, I wish I could just sit around with computers and machines and just brainstorm all day.

-Vernon, in George Washington (written by David Gordon Green, monologue by Damian Jewan Lee)